Notes

Allow filmmaker to pre-visualise their ideas and refine them in the same way a scriptwriter refines their ideas through a succession of drafts.

Give the team a better understanding on the project and looks wanted within the film. To show not tell. 

Shot Types:

-       Wide shot

-       Long shot

-       Medium shot

-       Close up

-       Extreme close up

-       Low angle (looking down)

-       High angle (looking up)

-       Over the shoulder shot

Having a range of shots makes the film more interesting

Zooming in, out and panning

Details about dialogue, camera action anything that will add to reading the story board.

Camera position:

-       High Camera angle – looks down on subject

-       Low Camera angle – makes subject look important and more powerful

-       Level Camera Angle – even with the subject

-       Long Shot – long range of distance between the camera and subject

Illustrate Camera movement by arrows.

Note any dialogue used in the film

Storyboard Language

Pan : steady sweep of camera

POV: from someone elses point of view

REACTION SHOT - 1 : someone looking off screen, a reaction of someone in conversation

ZOOM: In and out from subject

Edit: dissolves, fade out, jump cut

Tilt: using a camera on a tripod, the camera moves up or down to follow the action.